Kinds of Sentences Declarative: "I am going to the store." Interrogative : "Are you going to the store today?" Imperative: "Go to the store today." Exclamatory: "I don't want to go to the store!" Correcting a run-on sentence 1. If you have two different sentences you can separate them with a period and capitalize the first letter of the new sentence. Ex. I went to the store to buy dog food. On the way to the store I saw a tree fall. 2. If you have two sentences you can combine them with a comma and and, or, or but to make a compound sentence. Ex.I like to make pies but they can get really old.3. You can put a semicolon between the two sentences. Ex. I am going to the store; I am going to buy some dog food. 4. You can put a subordinating conjunction between the two sentences to make one. Ex. I bought some dog food at the store because, I ran out yesterday.
Sentence Structure
Simple Sentence: I am going to the store.Complex: I am going to the store because we ran out of milk. Compound: I am going to the store and I am going to the gym.Compound/Complex: I am going to the store and I am going to the gym because I need to workout.
Figurative Language
Simile: He acted like a monkey.Hyperbole: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.Onomatopia: "Bang"Metaphor: He is a monkey.Alliteration: Riley rides rodents rapping.Personification: The clock was screaming at me. Writing Styles
Kinds of Sentences
Declarative: "I am going to the store."
Interrogative : "Are you going to the store today?"
Imperative: "Go to the store today."
Exclamatory: "I don't want to go to the store!"
Correcting a run-on sentence
1. If you have two different sentences you can separate them with a period and capitalize the first letter of the new sentence. Ex. I went to the store to buy dog food. On the way to the store I saw a tree fall. 2. If you have two sentences you can combine them with a comma and and, or, or but to make a compound sentence. Ex.I like to make pies but they can get really old.3. You can put a semicolon between the two sentences. Ex. I am going to the store; I am going to buy some dog food.
4. You can put a subordinating conjunction between the two sentences to make one. Ex. I bought some dog food at the store because, I ran out yesterday.
Sentence StructureSimple Sentence: I am going to the store.Complex: I am going to the store because we ran out of milk. Compound: I am going to the store and I am going to the gym.Compound/Complex: I am going to the store and I am going to the gym because I need to workout.
Figurative Language
Simile: He acted like a monkey.Hyperbole: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.Onomatopia: "Bang"Metaphor: He is a monkey.Alliteration: Riley rides rodents rapping.Personification: The clock was screaming at me.
Writing Styles